Nicholas Bell

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Los Angeles based Nicholas Bell is IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic and covers film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and TIFF. He is part of the critic groups on Rotten Tomatoes, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), FIPRESCI, the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and GALECA. His top 3 for 2023: The Beast (Bonello) Poor Things (Lanthimos), Master Gardener (Schrader). He was a jury member at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.

Exclusive articles:

The Most Beautiful Boy in the World | 2021 Sundance Film Festival Review

Bjorn Again: Lindstrom & Petri Examine the Plight of the Beautiful and the Damned For those unfamiliar with the name Bjorn Andresen, the documentary The...

Knocking | 2021 Sundance Film Festival Review

Only This and Nothing More: Kempff Explores Cultural Gaslighting in Parochial Thriller As in the timeless singsong of Poe’s classic poem “The Raven,” ‘suddenly there...

Beginning | Review

Carpet Burn: Kulumbegashvili Unnerves with Exacting Debut of Violence and Veneration For decades, the international presence of Georgian cinema was thanks (mostly) to the output...

True Mothers | Review

Mother Has Arrived: Kawase Returns with Intersecting Drama on Motherhood Recently, Naomi Kawase, a staple amongst arthouse enthusiasts of Japanese cinema, has been drifting ever...

Video Interview: Ingir & Marja Bal Nango – The Tongues | Best Live Action Short Entry for the 93rd Academy Awards

A submission in the ‘Best Live Action Short’ category at the 93rd Academy Awards in 2021 directed by Marja Bal Nango and Ingir Bal...

Breaking

The Most Precious Of Cargoes | Review

The Zone of Disinterest: Hazanavicius Reanimates the Holocaust in...

Romería | Review

Blood Relatives: Simon Treads Familiar Water with Continued Autofiction After...
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